I moved to the Institute for Astrophysics of the Canaries, in Spain. Find my new contact details in the link below. The rest of this website is pretty pretty outdated...

I work on X-ray binaries, primarily those containing a low magnetic
field neutron star. These are highly energetic and rapidly changing X-ray emitters
powered by the gravitational energy of matter that falls onto the neutron star,
in a process known as accretion. By studying in detail their different accretion
states or "modes", I hope to learn how accretion flows behave under strong
gravitational fields. I am also interested in and doing research on
thermonuclear bursts, which offer a direct view of the neutron star's
photosphere and a window to the physical processes at work thereon (and therein!).